{"id":5664,"date":"2015-06-12T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5664"},"modified":"2015-06-12T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T11:25:07","slug":"milton-keynes-geek-night-three-years-on-and-as-good-as-ever-mkgn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/06\/milton-keynes-geek-night-three-years-on-and-as-good-as-ever-mkgn.htm","title":{"rendered":"Milton Keynes Geek Night &#8211; three years on and going from strength to strength (#MKGN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember how <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"MK Geek Night\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/mkgn.png?resize=153%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"240\" \/>I first became aware of <a href=\"http:\/\/mkgeeknight.co.uk\/\">Milton Keynes Geek Night<\/a> but, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/short-takes-raspberry-jam-raspberryjam-and-milton-keynes-geek-night-mkgn.htm\">three years ago, I turned up in a room above a converted bus station to see what this new event would be like<\/a>. 13 Geek Nights later (plus a special Geek Mental Health event too) and I haven&#8217;t missed a single night*, being described as a &#8220;groupie&#8221; by one of the founders. I even brought my wife along once&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the early days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/mk-geek-night\">I used to blog about the topics of discussion<\/a>. More recently I&#8217;ve struggled to find the time but <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkgn\">the audio from the talks is on SoundCloud<\/a> (well, all of the talks from Geek Night 3 onwards, that is).<\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s MK Geek Night lived up to expectations. Not being a designer or a developer, I tend to find that some of the talks are a little beyond my knowledge but still good for an IT architect to understand at a conceptual level.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that, as MK Geek Night celebrates its third birthday, now\u00a0would be a good time to look back on some of my favourite talks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Developer talks:\n<ul>\n<li>Dave Addey (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveAddey\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">@DaveAddey<\/span><\/u><\/a>):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkgn\/mkgn03-dave-addey\">What makes a good mobile app<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Drew McLellan (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/drewm\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">@DrewM<\/span><\/u><\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkgn\/mkgn-6-drew-mclellan-back-to\">Back to front website performance<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ben Seymour (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bseymour\">@bseymour<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkgn\/mkgn-9-ben-seymour-practical-responsive-images\">Practical responsive images<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Communicating:\n<ul>\n<li>Christian Senior (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/senoir\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">@senior<\/span><\/u><\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkgn\/mkgn-6-christian-senior\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Managing client expectations<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Christian Payne (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/documentally\">@documentally<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkgn\/mkgn-7-documentally-aka\">Storymaking<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Clarke (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Malarkey\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">@Malarkey<\/span><\/u><\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkgn\/mkgn-8-andrew-clarke-take-your\">Take your stinking paws off my design you damn dirty developers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Mark McCulloch <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreSpectaculr\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">(@WeAreSpectaculr<\/span><\/u><\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkgn\/mkgn-9-mark-mcculloch-are-you-speaking-scottish-in-tokyo\">Are you speaking Scottish in Tokyo<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Richards (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/escmum\">@escmum<\/a>): Content strategy when the audience is everybody.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Lessons in life:\n<ul>\n<li>Aral Balkan (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/aral\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">@Aral<\/span><\/u><\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkgn\/mkgn03-aral-balkan\">The high cost of free<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Simon Collison (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/colly\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">@colly<\/span><\/u><\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkgn\/mkgn04-simon-collison\">I have no idea what I&#8217;m doing<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Ben Seymour: <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkgn\/mkgn-12-ben-seymour-are-you-sitting-comfortably-healthy-working-habits\">Are you sitting comfortably? Healthy working habits<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and then there are Ben Foxall (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BenjaminBenBen\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">@BenjaminBenBen<\/span><\/u><\/a>)&#8217;s talks which are in a category of their own &#8211; they need to be on YouTube not SoundCloud! I just cant do them justice in words but how he gets 200 people to join in on their devices and illustrate some amazing functionality inside a browser I do not know. Similarly, Sii Cockerill (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/siicockerill\">@siicockerill<\/a>)&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/mkgn\/mkgn-11-sii-cockerill\">dynamic art based on maths\/environmental considerations<\/a> was incredibly visual but you can at least\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designtwelve.co.uk\/play\/christmas-weather-trees\">see the results on the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll sign off with massive congratulations and a huge thank you to Richard Wiggins (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardWiggins\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">@RichardWiggins<\/span><\/u><\/a>) and David Hughes (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidHughes\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">@DavidHughes<\/span><\/u><\/a>) who organise and MC these events &#8211; and to all of the sponsors (without whom they wouldn&#8217;t be able to take place) &#8211; and of course to the speakers too! Here&#8217;s to many more years of #MKGN.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*There was also an MKGN All-Dayer which I was unable to join but hey, that&#8217;s not a &#8220;geek <em>night<\/em>&#8221; is it?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember how I first became aware of Milton Keynes Geek Night but, three years ago, I turned up in a room above a converted bus station to see what this new event would be like. 13 Geek Nights later (plus a special Geek Mental Health event too) and I haven&#8217;t missed a single &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/06\/milton-keynes-geek-night-three-years-on-and-as-good-as-ever-mkgn.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Milton Keynes Geek Night &#8211; three years on and going from strength to strength (#MKGN)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,38],"tags":[461],"class_list":["post-5664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-inane-waffle","tag-mk-geek-night"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Milton Keynes Geek Night - three years on and going from strength to strength (#MKGN) - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/06\/milton-keynes-geek-night-three-years-on-and-as-good-as-ever-mkgn.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Milton Keynes Geek Night - three years on and going from strength to strength (#MKGN) - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I don&#8217;t remember how I first became aware of Milton Keynes Geek Night but, three years ago, I turned up in a room above a converted bus station to see what this new event would be like. 13 Geek Nights later (plus a special Geek Mental Health event too) and I haven&#8217;t missed a single &hellip; 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